The aim of a cooperation agreement signed by the Technical University and the University of Augsburg with the University of the Highlands and Islands in Inverness, Scotland (UHI), is to further research into resilient hydrogen-based energy systems. The universities intend to strengthen their existing academic collaboration. To this end, they signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Mai 11th.

When service robots make mistakes, it is not only important whether customers receive compensation. The robot’s voice can also shape how the situation is perceived. A human-like voice can make customers feel more supported after a service failure.?

With the involvement of the University of Augsburg, international researchers have presented a new roadmap for surface acoustic waves. Co-coordinated by Prof. Christoph Westerhausen, the publication outlines how this technology will evolve over the next ten years, spanning applications from signal processing to quantum technologies and the life sciences.

The University of Augsburg launched a new corporate design at the end of April. With the relaunch, the University of Augsburg is strengthening its identity as a modern, interdisciplinary, and networked institution, putting its motto “拉斯维加斯赌城” in the spotlight.

As in November 2024, the open forum on the 27th of April will also provide an overview of the current state of sustainability, climate protection, and biodiversity and will provide participants with the possibility to contribute their own ideas.

The first summer school for the degree programmes European Cultures of Communication will take place from the 31st of August to the 4th of September 2026. Doctoral candidates and master’s students can learn about and explore the development of writing and communicative practices from the early modern period to the present. Applications are open until the 29th of May 2026.

In close collaboration with researchers from the University of Michigan (USA), physicists in Augsburg have succeeded for the first time in proving experimentally and theoretically that heat transport through molecules can change by up to a factor of two through the exchange of a single atom. The study was published in the highly renowned journal Nature Materials.

A new collaborative project between LMU, University of Augsburg, UKA, and TUM helps cities to protect the health of their populations in the face of climate change.?The project supports evidence-based political decision-making and develops practical solutions in collaboration with local authorities, decision-makers, and residents.

The University of Augsburg is delighted to announce an outstanding honour for one of its early-career researchers: Assistant Professor Dr Dominik Schmid has been awarded the 2026 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, regarded as Germany’s most prestigious award for researchers in the early stages of their careers. This was announced by the Executive Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn.

It‘s a change that often goes unnoticed: while tropical agricultural regions are delivering ever higher yields, soils may be changing at a faster pace than we think?— and not for the better. From March 2026, a new Emmy Noether Research Group at the University of Augsburg, led by soil scientist Dr. Pedro Batista, will focus on this barely visible but globally significant process.

Urban greenery is good for individual health and the inner-city climate. For allergy sufferers, however, it can be a burden. Researchers at the Chair of Environmental Medicine are investigating how urban vegetation affects allergies. They are co-authors of an international guideline on health-promoting urban planning.

Prof. Harald Kunstmann, a hydrologist, from the University of Augsburg belongs to a group of three German candidates nominated by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) for the final global round of the Frontiers Planet Prize 2026. The prize honours academic breakthroughs that contribute to the stabilisation of the planet’s ecosystem.